The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag · Blackbraid

334 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 173 BPM, 7:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
334
LENGTH
7:02
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-54, 79 and 81-87, and 10 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 173 BPM
THE DYING BREATH OF A SACRED STAG · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 64, 76, 80, 88, 96, 116 and 24 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

334 bars across 25 sections: 218 keep time, 30 are fills, 27 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-54.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART AA
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
16 groovesBXAAVS1+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag?

173 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

334 bars, about 7:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Dying Breath of a Sacred Stag?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 64, 76, 80, 88, 96, 116 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 334 BARS ANALYSED
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